<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Alice 3 is designed specifically to support beginning students who will be learning Java or other professional languages, either as part of the current course, or in a subsequent course. Alice 2 is designed for beginning students learning programming fundamentals, but are not immediately interested in learning a particular professional programming language. Alice 3 may also work for these students, but the instructional materials for Alice 3 are probably more focused on the transition to Java, and so I do not think you want to use Ace 3 with your students, at this time.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You mat want to review these documents:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57857409/AliceSuiteDecisionTree.pdf" class="">http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57857409/AliceSuiteDecisionTree.pdf</a></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57914016/AliceSuite.pdf" class="">http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/file/57914016/AliceSuite.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let me know if you have more questions…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Helene Moore <<a href="mailto:helene.moore@ousd.k12.ca.us" class="">helene.moore@ousd.k12.ca.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Don,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm curious about the difference between Alice 3.1 and 2.4. I teach elementary school and started my 5th graders on 2.4 in January. Should I be looking into learning, then teaching 3.1 for next year? I've been told they are very different programs. I have no programming background, but took Dr. Cooper's great two-week 2.4 workshop this summer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Helene</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Don Slater <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank" class="">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Carol,<div class="">I would first look at updating your video drivers: <a href="http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/54959364/Updating%20Video%20Drivers" target="_blank" class="">http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/54959364/Updating%20Video%20Drivers</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and if you are working with PC’s, you might adjust your hardware acceleration: <a href="http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/86674945/Adjusting%20Hardware%20Acceleration" target="_blank" class="">http://alice3.pbworks.com/w/page/86674945/Adjusting%20Hardware%20Acceleration</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope this helps,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alice Team</div><div class="">Carnegie Mellon University</div><div class="">5000 Forbes Avenue</div><div class="">Pittsburgh, PA 15213</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Email: <a href="mailto:don@alice.org" target="_blank" class="">don@alice.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br class="">--- Henry David Thoreau</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. 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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="">On Feb 27, 2015, at 10:59 AM, mt_cwaddle <<a href="mailto:CWADDLE@MTRACE.ORG" target="_blank" class="">CWADDLE@MTRACE.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px" class="">I've taught Alice 2.2 for the past few years (grades 10-12) and now am getting ready to start Alice 3.1. Going through the tutorial videos and right away can't get my objects (fish, video 3) to move in any direction except rotate with the green handle. Can't even get the yellow object box to show when I click on the object. Am I doing something wrong or could it be a hardware issue? We've been having lots of those this year.</div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px" class="">Thanks for any input anyone can give me...</div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px" class=""> </p><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma" class=""><font size="3" class=""><i class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><font face="serif" class="">Carol Waddle</font><br class=""></font></i><font face="Tahoma" class="">Miami Trace High School<br class="">Business Teacher, Scholarship Coordinator</font></font><br class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><a href="tel:%28740%29333-4715" value="+17403334715" target="_blank" class="">(740)333-4715</a></font><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">alice-teachers mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><a href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">
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